Oakdale City Administrator Craig Waldron, who’s been with the city for more than 20 years, is resigning next month to pursue a teaching gig at Hamline University.

“I look at it and I kind of pinch myself,” Waldron said this week. “There are two things I always wanted to do: be a city administrator, and I sort of have my dream job here, and being a college instructor, and now I get to do that.”

Waldron will begin this fall as a full-time lecturer in the public administration master’s program of Hamline’s business school. He earned his doctorate from Hamline and has been an adjunct instructor at the school.

His last day in Oakdale will be Aug. 15.

During the search for Waldron’s replacement, Suzanne Warren, the city’s director of finance and human resources, will fill in as interim administrator.

Elizabeth Mohr came to the Pioneer Press in 2006 and has covered education, public safety, city and county governments and courts. She's done stints as a weekend reporter and as an online breaking news reporter. In 2014, she took over the Ramsey County and federal court beat, as well as archdiocese coverage. Mohr is a South Dakota native and a University of Minnesota (Twin Cities) graduate.

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